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Butterfly Island
Butterfly Island | Corina Bomann
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From the bestselling author of The Moonlit Garden comes the sweeping, romantic tale of one woman's quest across two continents and one hundred years of history to unearth her family's deepest secret. Diana Wagenbach is the sole survivor in a withering family tree fraught with secrets. When the first in a trail of clues is handed down to Diana by her great-aunt on her deathbed, along with a plea to assuage their family's guilt by revealing all, Diana obliges. She follows the clues--a picture here, a letter there, a pressed frangipani flower in a book--that carry her away from her philandering husband in Berlin to a charming manor in England and all the way to a tea plantation in Sri Lanka. Diana unravels the dramatic tale of her great-great-grandmother, Grace Tremayne, with the aid of Jonathan Singh, a local historian and writer--and someone with whom she feels a deep bond that sparks into romance. As Grace's tragic past in exotic colonial Ceylon is revealed and the family's sins come to light, Diana finds inspiration in her ancestor's courage and begins to rethink what happiness--and love--is worth, and how the surest route to peace is in setting the truth free.
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iaietta
L'isola delle farfalle | Corina Bomann
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Mehso-so

2/5 ⭐️

Avevo bisogno di un libro molto leggero e romantico, e questo rispondeva ai miei bisogni.
Ma giunti alla parte romantica che tanto aspettavo (arrivata praticamente in fondo al libro), ho trovato molto trash, e subito dopo la tragedia.
2 per la compagnia e la confusione finale, e comunque devo ammettere che ho apprezzato la lettura 😂 (stile TV spazzatura che guardi per staccare proprio)

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La_Cori
L'isola delle farfalle | Corina Bomann
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I'm starting the #readyoursign challenge (finally!) ♉
@Clwojick @Meaw_catlady
I'm currently reading these two books..

L'isola delle farfalle ➡️ "6. Read a book with your zodiac signs flower in the title, or on the cover, or heavily mentioned in the book."
Lots of pink roses on the cover ?

Almarina ➡️ "11. The top Love Match for Taurus is Cancer. Read a book that fills one of the prompts off of the Cancer list."
Element WATER ???

Clwojick Ooooh I love that water cover! 4y
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Kshakal
Butterfly Island | Corina Bomann
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OriginalCyn620 Beautiful photo! 🦋 4y
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Lcsmcat
Butterfly Island | Corina Bomann
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Mehso-so

I read this in translation, so some of the faults may be the translator not the author. But I found the dialog to be stilted, and the plot contrived. And while a bit of romance in a book isn't a bad thing, I'd really like to read about a mature woman who didn't fall into the arms of the first decent man she meets. I enjoyed the bits of Sri Lankan and Ceylon history and culture that were in the book, but those didn't rescue this from being "meh."

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Lcsmcat
Butterfly Island | Corina Bomann
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Y newest treadmill book. Oddly, Goodreads doesn't list this translation so I marked the original German novel, which looks odd, since I don't speak German. #eBook #intranslation

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Inad
L'isola delle farfalle | Corina Bomann
Mehso-so

Sono appena tornata dal mio viaggio mentale sull'Isola delle farfalle, tra le piantagioni di tè..i flashback descritti in questo libro sono assolutamente coinvolgenti! Peccato che in generale la storia lasci un po' di dubbi e alla fine non ci si sente del tutto soddisfatti. :/ ..un libro da salvare a metà! :(

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stefyarci
L'isola delle farfalle | Corina Bomann
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Lettura del momento :) che ne pensate??

Inad È tra i miei libri da leggere da almeno 3 anni, non riesco a decidermi! :< ..l'ho comprato attirata dalla copertina ma il suo momento non arriva, non so perché. :( ..forse nel frattempo ho "cambiato gusti" e ad oggi mi sembra un po' sciocco..è carino, invece? :/ 8y
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